Samsung Galaxy Z Trifold Will Cost $2,900 in the US
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- News link: https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/26/01/27/1446201/samsung-galaxy-z-trifold-will-cost-2900-in-the-us
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The company will only sell the device through its website and Samsung Experience Stores; mobile carrier partners including Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T won't be offering it directly. The TriFold unfolds into a 10-inch tablet, measures 3.9mm at its thinnest point, and is rated for 200,000 folds over its lifetime. Samsung launched the TriFold in South Korea on December 12 at 3.59 million won, about $2,450 at the time. Early reviews have praised the expansive inner screen for video but noted the 309-gram weight, thick folded dimensions, and half-baked software as significant drawbacks.
[1] https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/25/12/02/0511211/samsung-debuts-its-first-trifold-phone
[2] https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/the-samsung-galaxy-z-trifold-will-cost-2900-in-the-us-140000013.html
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No one need most of the phones at the price point they are available. "Need" isn't what is being addressed here. The world is full of people who don't give a crap about spending this kind of money, that's why these luxury products exist.
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Nobody needs a $50,000 daily driver car.
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At least this one is doing something unique for that price. The world is filled with expensive phones that have only incremental improvements over their cheaper brethren. Maybe you get a bit more performance, or slightly better cameras, or a slightly better screen. But a phone that unfolds into a full 10" tablet (a full-sized iPad, not an iPad Mini), that's something that no other phone can do, and one that offers a significant potential utility.
Of course, very few people will be able to justify the price,
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That is a good point, I can't imagine finding an excuse to upgrade an iPhone or Galaxy candy bar frequently, it's like in the early aughts when a PC upgrade year to year was a significant upgrade to now where there's not much reason to replace a laptop until the hardware is failing.
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I could kind of see somebody who flies for business a lot getting one. It's a big price premium over a phone plus a tablet, but maintaining multiple devices (e.g. charging them) and having your stuff spread out over them is still kind of a pita, and whipping the 'tablet' out of your pocket would be handy.
Ha Ha Ha (Score:1)
Ha ha ha ha ha
Men who the ... will buy a thing that don't even have a microsdcard on it and no stylus.
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It was weird that the last Fold didn't support a stylus because it is one of the better use cases for the larger screen. I've tried some of these folding phones and while the extra real estate is nice sometimes the fragility is more of a drawback on something that ties into all of your 2FA accounts, mobile payments and all that has become rolled into the phones. I intend to go back to a solid phone once this Fold4 I'm using becomes obsolete.
Luxury goods (Score:4, Insightful)
We will see more and more of these luxury goods coming out that only 10-20% of the people can afford, and they still won't own it. A smartphone is an expensive device they sell you for good money, and they continue making good money on it, because you have no choice but run the OS and the apps they want you to run. I still can't understand how most people don't see or care about that. Happy and own nothing, indeed.
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I wouldn't mind a folding phone, if they were better priced and had good cameras. For some reason they seem the designs seem to be very questionable.
Take the Pixel Fold. It has the lesser Pixel cameras, not the high end Pro ones. Even those have lagged a bit in the last few years, but that's another story. It also has pointless cameras like the under screen ones. It's a foldable, you don't need a selfie camera, you can use the rear camera and front screen at the same time. Complete waste of money and puts a
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I don't know about the first part. There has never been a shortage of luxury goods on offer most people can't afford, or at least could never justify the expense to own. I expect most slashdot posters could easily find $2900 to buy a phone. Now I also expect most of us could find a whole lot of things we'd rather buy first. Look what a lot of guys spend on a Golf Clubs, a boat, (sports car vs basic reliable/safe transportation), classic car, theater room, gold plated ridding mower, gaming PC, watches, oth
They could have just (Score:1)
Called it the Galaxy N with upgrades to the Z.
Car vs Phone (Score:2)
I guess I can just have a phone instead of having a car.
No Thank You (Score:2)
Way too $$$. I rather carry an iPad mini if I need that much screen real estate.
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Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Folds!
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That's $2700 more than I'd ever pay for a phone, and I don't even want a foldable.